Genesis Chapter 11 Darby English Bible

Genesis 11:1

And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

Genesis 11:2

And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

Genesis 11:3

And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:5

And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

Genesis 11:6

And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:8

And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.

Genesis 11:9

Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

Genesis 11:11

And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:12

And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.

Genesis 11:13

And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14

And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

Genesis 11:15

And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:16

And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

Genesis 11:17

And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:18

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

Genesis 11:19

And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:20

And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

Genesis 11:21

And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:22

And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

Genesis 11:23

And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24

And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.

Genesis 11:25

And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:26

And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:27

And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

Genesis 11:28

And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans.

Genesis 11:29

And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

Genesis 11:30

And Sarai was barren: she had no child.

Genesis 11:31

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

Genesis 11:32

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.